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16 Juiciest Bits From the Roger Ailes Biography

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The New York Times trashed Roger Ailes: Off Camera, but that doesn’t mean there isn't plenty of fun to be had with this juicy bio. We speed-read the book to bring you the biggest revelations, from why he doesn’t give to Muslim charities to how he bullied Time magazine.

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His father was abusive.“When he got mad, he beat me,” Ailes told Chafets. “He used an electric cord, a belt, whatever was handy.” Ailes said his father would go to jail if he did what he did today.

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He thinks the liberal media is like Hitler and Stalin.Ailes

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